The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1874, Page 8

“MOULTON'S MESSAGE, (CONTINUED PROM FIFTH PAGE.) the most ample apology, which had been accepted by Tilton as satisfactory, and as the matter was wobody’s business but that of the parties inter- pated, he Would never become @ party to any in- vestigation of the subject, and that Tilton had acted not unjustly or unfairly toward him in qbat he bad done; that im such case the affair nt possibly have quieted and peace tained. — aoe ie crime” ed in the letter ope of reconcilia- on the fullest investi r ing ‘ation would beim, po te. Alter the publication of that Jetter | so advised Mr. Beecher, his friends and counsel, but that advice was unneeded; and I also gave Mr. Beecher the same advice at @ consul- tation with him ior which he asked in a letter, which will herea(ter inics proper piace be pro- duced, Some days subsequent to this advice of mune to Tilton, I received the following letter, of e June 25, 1874, from Mrs. Tilton, which is the | last communication 1 have had with or trom her | on the subject. It is herewith produced, and marked “MM”: — MES, TILTON TO MOULTON, june 1874. ax. Mouton: Itis fitting I should make quick cadea- ver to undo my injustice toward you, I learned trom Theodore last night that you greatly opposed publication of his statement to. Dr. Bacon. Thad coupled you with Mr. Carpenter as ad vasing Forgive me, and accept my gratitude. LIZ. R. TILTON, MRS, TILTON ADMITS SEXUAL RELATIONS. Having now placed betore the committee m: statement of the facts concerning Mrs. Tilton an the documentary evidence that 1 have to support them, and as they are diametrically pend two nearly all that Mrs. Tilton appears to declare in ber published statement, Ideem it my duty to my- self and my position in this terrible business to say ‘that during this affair Mrs. Tilton has more than once admitted to me and to another person to my xnowledge—whom I do not care to bring into this controversy—the fact Of ber sexual relations with Beecher, and she never bas once denied them other than in the written papers prepared for a | purpose which I have already exhibited; but, | op the contrary, the fact of such criminal inter- course beng well understood by Beecher, Tilton and Mrs, Tilton to have'taken piace, my whole ac- tion in the matter was based upon the existence of that fact, and was an endeavor, taitniully carried out by me in every way possible, to protect the families of both parties from the consequences of a public disclosure of Mrs, Tilton’s admitted in- fidelities to her husband. pow return to the documentary evidence, and the necessary explanations thereof, which [ have | of the condition of the affair as regards Beecher | himself, after the fall of 1871, as disconnected with | the affairs of Bowen, which I have already ex- tained, At about this time I received the iollow- letter, marked “MM2’?:— MRS. WOODHULL TO REECHER. No.15 East Tuinty-siguTs Sreext, 19th, lth, 187). | Rev H. W. Brxcuen :— Deak. Stn—For reasons in which you are deeply in- | terested as well as myself, and the canse of truth, I de sire to have an interview with you, without fail, at some hour to-morrow. Two of your sisters have gone out of their way to assail my character and purposes, both by the means of the pubife press and by numerous private | letters written to various persons with whom they seek to injure me and thus to defeat the political ends at nich f aim. “You doubtless Know that it is in my power to strike back, and in ways more disastrous than anything that | @an come to me: but! do not desire todo this I simply @esire justice trom those trom wncm I have @ right to | expect it; and a reasonable course on your part will as- | sistme to it. I speak guardediy, but I think you will an- | @erstand me. I repeat that I must have an interview to- | morrow, since I am to speak to-morrow evening at Steinway Hail, and what I shail or shall not say will de- end largely upon the resultof the interview. Yours | marked the passage that we spoke aout last ni NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1874.—TRIPLE | smong al] whom I met. Tam thrown publie men and pooceany the make and | have every rationa! en- ¢ evils which have been visited upon asing success. trophe which precipitated him froin his place only dis. iu fe on! i closed feelings that had existed long. Neither he hor You sther groumas than teas santere! 4 plain wh, know with 8 im society, on rumors. ‘Tmention this to ex- certainty that no me tion will reach U ‘Time and WORK Wi res chronic remedies, Ut my de- struction wo@id place him all right, that shall not, stand in the way. I am willing to step down and out No one can offer more than that That I do offer. Sacritice me without hesitation, if you can clear! his safety and happiness thereby. Anything would be gained by it. I should be destroved, but he would not be saved. E. and the children would have their future clouded. In one point of view T could desire the sacrifice on my part, Nothing iy be so bad as the horror of great darkness nit spend much of my time. I look upon death as sweeter. faced than any friend [have in the worid, Lite be pleasant if I could see that rebuilt which ts shattered. But to live on the sharp and ragged edge of anxiety, re- morse, fear, despair, and yet to put on all the appear- ‘ance of serenity and happiness, cannot be endured much Jonger. Tam wellnigh discouraged. If you, too, cease to trust me—to love me—1 am aione; I have not another person in the world to whom I coul 0. ell, 10 God T commnitall. Whatever it may be here, itshall be well there. With sincere gratitude tor your heroic friendship, and with sincere affection, though you loveme not, I am yours (though unknown to you), H.W. BR This letter was to let me know that Elizabeth | had written bim, contrary to her promise, without my permission, and also to inform me of his fears as to the change in Tilton’s mina, and its clear | statement of the case as it then stood cannot be further elucidated by me. On the 25th of March I received @ portrait of Titian as a present from Mr. Beecher, with the following note, as @ token of his contidence and respect. It is produced, and marked “QQ: BEECHER TO MOULTON. | My Drar Priznp—I sent on Friday or aturday a por- trait of Titian to the store to you. I hope it may suit ‘ou. y Lhave been doing ten men’s work this winter—partly te make up lost time, partly because I live under @ cloud, feeling every mont! my last work, and anxious to make the en Esau sold bis birthright he found “no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.” But I have | one abiding comfort. I have known you, and fowad in | you one wite has given a new meaning to friendship, ‘As soon as Warn days come 1 want you to go to Peeks- kill with me. a am Cag im an hour for Massachusetts, to be gone all e week. af} urging forward mv second volume of “Life ot ."” for “the night cometh when no man can work.” With much affection and admiratfon, yours gs W. B. Mancn 25, 1872. Monday morning. After Tilton had written a campaign document against Grant’s administration, ana in favor of | Mr. Greeley’s election, Beecher discussed with me the position taken by Tilton. Beecher aiso gave me @ copy of nis (Beecher’s) speech opening the Grant campaign in Brookiyn. Aiter the speech Was delivered he sent me the iollowing note of oad 1872, which I here produce, marked BEECHER TO MOULTON. May 17. 1872. My Dear Fraxx—I send you the only copy I have of | My speech at the Academy of Music on Grant, and have ht, and you Will see just what I said, and that I argued then ) ust as Ldo now. Pray send it back, or I shalt be left without a speech! Tread Theodore’s on Grant, Ido not think it just. It as ably written; itis a case of grape shot. Yet, L think it ‘will overact: it is too strong—witl be likely to produce » feeling among those not aiready intense, that it is @ sive. Yours sincerely and ever, H.W. B. Don’t forget to send back my speech. | Abont the time of this occurrence Beecher and Tilton met at my house on friendly terms. In fact | 1 cannot exhibit better the tone of Tilton’s mind | in the winter and spring of 1871-72 than to produce | here a letter, written to me at that time without | date, but I can fix the date as early as that. It is | here produced, and marked *‘SS’ TILTON TO MOULTON. x River Rai.roap, Monday Morning. very truly, VICTORIA C, WOODHULL. PS. Please return answer by bearer. THE STEINWAY HALL INVITATION, | The foregoing le‘ter occasioned Mr. ‘t1iton much | ae lest Mrs. Woodhull, in proceeding against ir. Beecher and bis sisters, would thereby invoive , Mrs. Tilton, Accordingly, knowing that Mr. Beecher and Mrs. | Wooanuil were to have an interview at my bonse | on the next day, he came to it, uninvited, and urged Mr. Beecuer to preside on that evening at | Steinway Hall. after Mrs. W. left Tilton repeated | this urgency to Beecher. | On that evening | went to Steinway Hall with Tilton, and, finding no one there to preside, Tilton volunteered to preside himself, which, | believe, | Bud the effect o! preventing Mrs. Woodhull’s pro- posed attack on the Beecher family at that time. Ub tne 30th of December, 1871, Mrs. Woodhull aiso sent aletter to Beecher desiring that he would ak at a woman's sufrage convention in Wash- | imgton, to be held on the 10cb, 11th and 12th of | January following. That letter Beecner torwarded torme, with the loliowing note of the date of 2d re reat 1872, herewith produced and marked BEECHER TO MOULTON. | Buoox.yn, Toxspay Evxnixg, January 2.1872 | xu MocuroN—1. I'send you V. W.'s letter to me | iy which, T sabmitto your judgment. ‘Teil me bing. Is ittoo long?” Will she use it for pub- | Tatung’. 1 do not wish to have it so used. fo spent on the "platiorin "of either oF the two suftrare societies What infiuence l exert I prefer to do on my Swo-hook; and ido not mean to train with either party, fang it wail pot be thug to press me in wnere Ido not wish tego, Burt Teave ft for you, Judge top men I bave leaned #n you hitherto, and ne¥er becn sorty for it see ‘2 I was mistaken about the CA. Union coming out so early that I could not get a notice of @. age init. Tt just the other way, to be delayed, and I send yous Rough proof of the first page, and the Siar article. in the paper to-morrow line or so. Wi to soften u little the touch about the Lid, Christian. ‘2 Dia you think I ought to keep a copy of any letters to V. W.7. Do vou think it would be better to write It again, and not sav so much? "Will you keep the letter fo he, and send the other if you judge it wise ? My Dea and a rep! what you Ido not mean | 4 Will vou send a line to any house tn the morning say- | what you conclude ‘am full of company. Yours truly and affectionately, A.W. B A COMPLIMENTARY NOTICE TO TILTON. There is 4 paragraph in this pote which needsa word of explanation. I bad advised Beecher, in erder that he might show tnat there was no un- windly feeling between him and Tilton, ro publish in the Christian Union areference to the Golden | age. He agreed to ao 80; but instead of that he | bad @ notice which I thought was worse than if he had said nothing, and the aliusion in the second paragraph Of this letter is to a letter which I haa Written to Beecher upon the two topics—ihis and Mrs. Woodhull. A ode ger copy of my letterI herewith submit, | 0? : Marked * MOULTON TO BEECHER. My Dear Sin—First with reterence to Mrs. Woodhull’s | sewer and vour answer; I think that you would have Sone better to accept the invitation to speak in Washing- n, Dut if lecture interferes your letter in reply is ¢ enough, and will bear publication. | With relation to your notice of the Golden Age I tell | be inserted | Hopso: My Drax Faaxg—[ am writing while the train is in vhich accounts for the apparent drunkenness | aken chirography. Mrs. Beecher sits in the | others saw it, and then he charges @ grievous wrong | home ‘on me! ‘sta {udement day.” God hen | look on earth it 1s deep the heavens above | see the moi oh! that I could put in golde your faithful, earnest, undy ested trienaship! Your noble wife, t i scomforters. Itis such ag she that renews & womanhood. Now, Frank, [ wouid not any more re, On a hopeless task. n asT. T, there isno possible sulvation depend upon him. With @ strong nature, he he does not know how to govern it. With generous im- | puises, the undercurrent that ruses him is self. With isared Sey En oe. ing ‘Adelity. your disinter- oe your way to | ardent affections, he cannot love long that which does | do ‘nov think that | not repay him with admiration ai praise. With a strong, t ic nature, he is constantly imposed upon with the idea that a position, a great stroke, # coup d’ctat, + Hesides these he hus a hundred good things about b les ese he @ bundre al 's about bim, but these named traits § “eh 5 ake him “absolutely unreliab! Therefore there is no use in further trying strong teeling ee me, and it brings gréat peace with it, that lam spending my last Suuday and preaching wy last sermon, Dear, Good God, I thank Thee Iam indeed beginning to see Fest and triumph, ‘Tbe pain of lite is but a mo- ment; the glory of incouceivable, tul verlasting emancipation is wordless, of beckoning xlory. Oh, my beloved ‘ank, I shall'know you there, and forever hold fellow- snip with you, and look back wad smile at the past. Your loving . W. Be TILTON’S DISMISSAL FROM PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Meanwhile charges were preterred against Til- ton for the pee of having him dismissed from Plymouth church. This action, which seemed to threaten the discovery of the facts in regard to the troubles between Beecher and Tilton, annoyed both very much; and { mysel! feared that serious difficulty would arise therefrom. Upon consulta- Hon with Beecher and Tilton’ | suggested a plan by Which that investigation would be rendered un- necessary, which Was in substance that a resolu- tion should be passed by the church amending its Toll; alleging that Tilton, having voluntarily with- drawn from the church some four years before, therelore the roll snonid be amended by striking otf his name. This course had been suggested to me by Mr. Tilton about a year and a halt beiore In answer to a letter by Beecher, dated December 3, 1871, marked “UU 3” :— BEECHER TO MOULTON, My Dear Friexp—There are two or three who fee) anxious to press action on the case. It will only serve enough. ‘of the complications which, in such a body, no man can foresee and uo one control. Once tree from @ sense of responsibility tor Aim, and there would be a strong tendency for kindly teeling to set in, which now is checked by the member- ship, without attendance, sympathy, or doctrinal ayree- ment. Since the connection ts really formal, and not vital or sympathetic, why should it continue, with all the risk of Drovoling irritating measures? kvery day's reftection satisfes me that this is the course of wisdom, and that will be the stronger and B, the weaker tor it, You said that you meant to effect it. Can't it be done promptly? Ifa letter is written it had short, siiuply announcing withdrawal, and perhaps with AB expression of kind wishes, &c. You will know. {shall be'in town Monday and part of Tuesday. Shall I hear trom yout Decemnen 3, 1871. . But when the meeting of the church was hela for that purpose it was charged there that Tilton had slandered the pastor. ‘Tilton therefore took the stand and said, in substance, that if he had ut- tered any slanders against Beecher he was ready to answer them, as God was his witness. Beecher thereupon stated that he had no charges to make, and the matter dropped. But when the resolution ‘Was passed, instead of being put 80 as to exon- erace Tilton, 1t was aeclared in substance that, | whereas certain charges had been made against him, and as he pleaded to those charges non mem- bership, bis name be dropped from the roll. This action of the church very much exasper- ated Tilton, who thought that Beecher should have prevented such a result, and tnat he might have done so if he had stood by him fully and fairly as agreed. In that, however, I believe Til- ton was mistaken, because Mr. William F. West, who preferred the charges agaiust ‘Ifiton, did it against the wish of Beecber and without any con- uitation with him, as appears by the following ter of June 25, 1873, produced here, and marked “yy? MR, WEST TO MR. BEECHER. it. almost elbow to elbow in the palace car. the is white haired and looks a dozen years older than when I last had a near view of her. My heart has been full of pity for her, notwithstanding the cruel way | in which she has treated my gooc name. Her face is | written over with many volumes of human suffering. I do not think she has been aware of my presence, tor she has been absorbed in thought—her eyes rooted to one spot. e suggestion has occurred to me which I hasten to | communicate. She is going to Florida and may never return alive. If J am ever to be vindicated trom the | slanders which she has circufated, or which Mr. Bi a pretends to have aertved irom ber'and Mrs. Morse, why ‘Would it not be well toget trom her and Mrs. Morse a statement under oath (by such a process as lustevening’s documents make easy and harmless) of the exact narra- tions which they made to him and to otners. It would be wesi to have them say what they said be- | fore he gets @ chance to say what they said to him. | speak to Mr, Ward aboutit, Of course leave the mat- ter wholly to you and him. | ‘ain unusually beavy nearted this morning. My sullen neighbor keeps thé dark and lurid past vividly | before my wind. If she actually knew the conduct which her priestly husband has been guilty of, I believe would shed his biood—or perhaps, saving him, she | Wwouid wreak her wrath on his victiae.” ‘ihere is a look of desperation in her eye w-day as if she were compe- tent to anything bitter or revengeful. But perhaps I misjudge her mind. 1 hope Ido. Tshail not be nome till Thursday afternoon instead of morning, as 1 said—leaving for Washington at nine P. | M. thatevening. Ever yours, THEODORE. On the 3d of June, 1872, Beecher received trom Mrs. Woodhull the tollowing letter of that date, which i bere produce, marked “TT.” | MRS. WOODBULL TO BEECEER. | 48 Broap Srazzr, June 3, 1872. Rav. Henry Warp Brecazn :— | ,Mx Dean Sin—The social fight against me being now | waged in this city is becoming rather hotter than Ican well endure jonger, standing unsupported and aloue, as | 1 have antit now. Within ast two Weeks 1 have been shutout of hotel atter hote ng obtained @ place in one, hunted down by d set of | males and femaies, who Fy determined th rH shail cot | De permitted to live even vent it, ‘Now, I want your assistance. I want to be sustained in my position in the Gilsey House, trom which I am or- dered out and from which Ido not wish to this simply because 1 am Victoria C. Woodhall, tne a Yocate of Social freedom. I have submitted to this perse- cution just so long as 1 ean endu: projects, in fact everything for which I live suffers froia Af, and it must cease,” Will you lend me your aid in this? Yours very truly, 1CTORIA C. WOODH ULL, | duced, and marked “CU":— BEECHER TO MOULTON. Monpvay Eveninc, Jone 3, 1872. My Dear Mn Movvron—Will you answer this? Or will you see that she is to understand thatI can do nothing ! 1 cei inly shail not, ai and ail hazards, takes single step in that direction; and ifat brings trouble—i: must come. Please drop me a line to say that all is Judgment all is right. Truly yours, ‘This letter of Mrs. Woodhull, together with those before produced asking Beecher to speak at a right—ifin your i. WB. | Suffrage convention, are all the letters I have irom her to Beecher. To this letter no reply was made. youlramkiy.as your friend, that I ara ashamed of | and would rather vou had written nothing. Your ear! Associations with and your present knowledge of the man | who edits that paper are grounds upon which you might to hase so written that no reader would have doubted | tat in your opinion Theodore Tilton’s public ana private | integrity was unquestionable. If the arucle had been writien to compliment the Independent it would receive ay unqualified approval. On the 6th of February, 1872, I received from Mr. | bim. Some enemies of Beecher were endeavoring | Beecher the jetter which i here produce, o: that Gate, and marked “P P”:. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY BEECHER, Monpay, Feb. 5, 1872. My Dean Prrexp—I leave town to-day, and expectto | Ments of the press, that the statement refleeted | ss through from Philadelphia to New Haven. Shall jt be here GU Friday. a pout three weeks ago I met T. in the cars going to B. He waskand. We talked much. At the end he told me 20 go on with my work without the least anxiety, In so far as his feelings and actions were the occasion of ap. prehension. Ov ‘returning home from New Haven (where I am three Gays in the week, delivering course of lectures to the theological students), f found a note from £. saying that 7 felt hard toward me, and was going to see or ‘write me betore leaving for the West she kind! “Lo not be cast down. I bear this ways, but the God in whom we trust will | B now you do and are willin abundanily to help him. and t also know your etbar, | rassments.” These were words of warning. but also of onsolation, for i believe E. is beloved of God, and that | her prayers for me are sooner heard than mine for my- it or ior her. But it seems that a change has come to | sce I saw him in the curs. Indeed, ever since le has felt more intensely the force of feeling in. society, nc the humiliations which environ bis enterprise. Le has growing! y felt that [had a power to help which { 416 not develop, and [ believe that you have participated 7" am this feeling. it is natural you should. is @earer to you than J can be. He is with you. Ail his trials hie open to your eye daily. But! see you bul widom, and my perso: relations, environments, mecessities, limitations, dangers anc perplexities you HHot see or tmagine jad not gone throngh thie greni year of sorrow, J would not have believed that any Que could pass through my experience and be alice or wane [have been the centre of three distinet circles, h one of which required clearmindedness and ecu: Miris’inventive or oriemating power, viz — 1.— Lhe great church. 2—The newspaper. She boot ‘The frst 1 could neither get out of nor sli The senstiveness of 80 MADY of My People would nave made any appearance of trooble or any remission of force an eccasiop of alarm and uotice anu have excited, when it was important that rumors should die and everything be quieved ene wspa ve general directions, and tn so doing | was continu- ally spurred and exhorted by those in interest. It covid ny be helped. ‘he “Life of Christ,” long delayed, had locked op the nk them—finished h sorrow as that ‘ar! The terior history ot it will never written. Daring al! this time you, Lnerally, were ali my consort. should have fallen on the way but for the Courage witch you inspired apd the hope which you ¥ vacation was profitable. Teame back, hoping that the’ bitterness of death was passed. But T's troubles brought back the cloud, with even severer suffering, For al) (his fail and wigier [have eit that you did not teel a oe ae ad 7 I seemed, both og bY co ith @ cautious or slug, ‘willing. to vave myself but not to risk anything for tet see whether ing for T. where I do. hands is simple Sn To say that Lhave « chnreh on ‘m; enough, but to have the bundreas and thousands of men Pressing me, each one with his keen suspicion, OF Anxiety, or zeal; to see tendencies which, if not stopped, ‘Would break out into ruinons defence of me: to stop them ‘Without seem; to do it, w prevent ‘ie and allay prejuaices agai: which Bad their ing years belore this, to weep serene. ag | J was not alarm or disturbed; to be cheerful at inffering the tor- ments of the damned; to pass siee, n come up fresh aint Talstfor senaay ights often and | Alt th RL? come may talked about, but the real thing cannot be underst frow the mor its Wearimg and grindiog on the ‘Goa tbat I have aire into my efforts fo prepare aw: ever I did jor myself # bandredto public, I bave never lost an hopper ta FeiOsa tageebor dy WO Py I did roll off. doing but littie except | Y one question- nat | et more boy pels and judg. | ay | Alter the publication of the tripartite covenant by Mr. Wilkeson, which I believe was on the 29tn | of May, 1013, the story of the troubles between Beecher and Tilton was revived, with many rumors, and those claim ng to ve friends of Beecher were endeavoring, as Tilton thought, to explain the terms of that covenant in a manner prejudicial to to get some ciew to the proofs of the tacts lying at the bottom of these scandals. | After the publication of this “tripartite cove- | nant” was made, Tilton deemed, from the com- upon him, and he desired that in some way Beecher should reiieve him trom the imputation of having circulated slanderous stories about him Without justification, for which he had apologized, and by advice of iriends he prepared acard for me to submit to Beecher to publish in his vindication. The original card I berewith produce, marked “OU 1”:— 4 CARD FROM HENRY WARD BERCHER. A letter written by Theodore lilton to Henry C. Bowen, dated Breoklyn, January 1, 1871, narrating charges been ma je public in a community inwhich Iam a citizen and clergyman, and thrust upon me, by noagency of my own, what I con!d not with propriety invite tor myselt—namely, an opvortunity t make the iollowing staiements:— 1. By the comrtesy of Mr. Tilton, that letter was shown to me at the time it was written, aud betore it wasconveyed to r ago. By ‘egal and other | arged to pubiish it then, without delay, | statement expiaining sudden collision with Mr. Bowen, and‘ his unexpected reurement as editor of the Union and contributor to the Indej But al- though Mr. Tilton’s public standing needed such an ex- | planation to be made, and aithongh he had my free con- sent to make it, vet agnanimously refrained trom | doing so, throug an unwillingness to disclose to tue public Mr. Bowen’s aspersions concerning myself, Mr. Tiiton’s consideration for mny feelings and reputation, thus evinced at the beginning, has continued to the end, and e hever ceased to be grateful to him for an un- coma anliness in accepting wounds to his own rep- the sake of preventing aspersions on mine. utation fi | CTL. The surreptitious and anavthorized publication last Sunday of Mr out the knowledge of Mr, Tilton or myseif—gives me the Tight to say that Mr. Bowen long ago retracied his mis- taken charges in the following words, under his own | Band and seal, dated — —, namely :— IIT. In addition to Mr. Bowen's voluntary statement | false. one and all, an or foundation in fact. | AV. All my differences with Mr. Bowen, and all tem- Poraty misdnderstandings between Mr. Tilton and my. to be without any color of r son amicably and in the spirit of mutual good will. HENRY WARD BEECHER, Beecher felt much aggrieved at this claim opon him by Tilton, feeling that the matter bad peen ail settled and adjusted, and he answered Tiiton’s | @pplication in this regara by the letter herewith ee under date June 1, 1873, marked BEECHER TO MOULTO! Sunpay Morsing, June 1, 1873. heaven isserene, as befitsone who has about finished bie world-lite. coud do nothing on Satarday—my Read wasconfused. Buta good sieep has made it like crystal. I bave determined to make no more resista Theodore’s temperament is such that the tutnr temporarily earned, would be abso!utel: filed with a! t cl es, any hour or day to be obliged to thiese— sf ali the foe by which we nave saved ourselves. Ib ix only tairthat he should know that the publication of the card which he proposes would leave him far worse off than before. coment Was made.atter my letter through you was written. He had had ita year. He had condoned his wite's fault. had enjoined upon me with the ut- | most earnestness and solemnity not to betray his wite nor leave his children to a blight. I had earnestly joined in the purpose. Then was le and signed oy him, It was not C4 He revii ix part so that it shoald wholly saii signed it. ft stood ung! upblamed jo more jnestior id Then it Nothin; jut that. at wihich he did tn privademnen muade,pablie excited honestly and is settlement making him, and | Hae pezacee eter He eal aa oe itharate’sat with wi ye was parinasly rontent ul) and am now, after | fo—and all | ire to: my business, my | The above letter was sent to me enclosed in note | from Beecher of the same date, which is here pro- | ve him sign and | je by Mr: Bowen against my character, has | ‘Tilton’s letter—a publication made with- | self, crowing out of these, were long ago settled justly, | My Daan Faarx—The whoie earth is tranquil and the | ‘and rendering me lable at | » New Yorx, June 25, 1873. Rev. H. W. Bercerr DEan Sik—Moved by a sense of duty as a member of Plymouth Church. 1 have decided to prefer charges against Henry ©. Bowen and Theodore Tilton, and have requested Brother Halliday to call a mecting of the Examining Cummittee im Order that Tmay make the charges before therm. Thinging that you Would perhaps like tobe made acquainted with these facts 1 csilea last rains tert Beach's house, where I was informed that you had re- wap earetore’ wells by earl; il to day. ¥. therefore write you by early mai vs ours WM. FP. WEST. | very truly, Meanwhile, through the intervention of Dr. Storrs and others, as I understood, an ecclesias- tical council had been called. The acts of this coun- cil in attempting to disiellowship Plymouth Church were very displeasing to Beecher, and caused him much trouble, especially the action of D which he expressed to me in the Jollowing letter, Gated March 26, 1874, Which is here produced an marked ‘WW’?:— MORTLEON, BEECHER TO fAdential. indignant beyond expression. Storrs’ course bas becn an unspeakable outrage. Alter his pretended sympatny and friendship tor Theodore he bas turned against him in the tuost venomous manner— and itis not sincere. His professions of faith and affec- tion for me are hollow and taithiess. They are merely | Metical. “His object Js plain. He ts determined to. force a | contiiet, aud to use one of Us to destroy the other if pos- | sible. Thatishis game, By stinging Theodore he be- | lieves that he wiil be driven into a cour hopes will ruin me. If ever a man betraye: has 11am in hopes that Theodore, who has, borne so | much, will be unwilling to bea flail in Storrs’ hand to | strike’ata friend, There are one or two reasons, em- | phatic, tor waitivg unui the end of the council before | taking’any action. | 1. That the attack on Plymouth church and the threats against Congregationalism were so violent that | the public mind is likely to be absorbed in the ecclesias- | tleal elements and not in the personal. 2, It Plymouth church is dis/cliowshipped it will consti | tute @ blow at me and the church, far severer than at iro. 3. That if council does not disvtlorship Plymouth charch, then, undoubtedly, Storrs will go off into Pres. byterianism, as he almost. without disguise, threatencd ip bis speech, and in that case the emphasis will be | Bere. 4 Atany rate, while the fury rages in council itis not wise to imake any move that would be one among £0 mavy, as to lose effect in a degree, and after the battle 4s over one can more exactly see what ought to be done. Meantime lam _ patient as I know how to ly used up with inward excitement, and must run away for aday or twoand hide and sleep, or there will | be a taneral. ae Cordially and trustingly yours, Mancu 25, 1874. No one can tell under first impressions what the effect | of such a speech will be. Jt ought to aamn Swrrs, HALLIDAY, BEECHER AND MOULTON, While these proceedings were pending Rev. | Mr. Halliday, the assistant or Beecher, called upon bim and upon me to endeavor to learn the facts about the difficulties between Beecher and ‘Tilton. i stated to Halliday that I did not think that either he or the church were well employed in endeavor- ing to reopen a troubie which had been adjusted and settled by the parties to it, and that it was | better, im my judgment, for everybody that the | Whole matter should be allowed to reposen quiet. | The result of the interview between Halliday aud | Beecher was communicated’to me in the following | letter, undated and unsigned, so that I cannot fix | the date, out itis in Beeciier’s handwriting, and is bere produced and marked “XX” ;— BEECHER TO MOULTON. Scxpar—A. M. called last night. in- terview with him did not satisty bat dsturbed, Tt was the same with Bell, who was present. H tended directly | to unsettling. terview last mght was very beneficial, and gave This must be looked atter. ‘our int confidenee. It is vain to build if the foundation sinks under every fort, T shalt see you at 10:30 to-morrow—if you return by ‘way of 49 Remsen. . The anxiety which Beecher felt about these stories ana the steps he took to quiet them, to- gether with the trust he reposed in me and my en- | deavors to aid him in that behalf, may perhaps be | @8 well seen from a letter headed ‘25, °73,’ which I believe to be June 25, 1873, and directed “My | dear Von Moltke,” meaning myself, and kindly | complimenting me with the name of a general having command of @ battle. Itis bere produced Pl and-marked “YY:"— MOULTON AS VON MOLTKE—BEECHER TO MOULTON. | | My Dean Vow Mouree—I have seen Howard again. He says that it was not from Theodore that Wilkeson got the | statement, but trom Carpenter. Is he reporting that view? [have told Claflin that you would come with Carpenter if he could be found, | and at any rate by nine to-night (to see Storrs), bat I did not say apything about Storrs. Tent Cléveland with my horse and buggy over toxunt | Garpenter. Will you put Carpenter on his guard about makiug such statements ? rom him these bear the force of co ming trom, head- quarters, Yours truly and ever... H, W, BEECHER. Meanwoiie Halliday had had an interview with Tilton, the result of which, as unsettling the mat- | matter between Tilton and Beecher, was ver’ anxiously awaited by Beecher, who communicates tome, and who was also quite as anxious that Tilton should take no steps by which the matter between them should get into the newspapers or be made in any manner @ matter of controversy. My Dear Priewp—Hallids 2 i=) ove given | solewnly pronounce the charges to be | With this view he stated the situation on the same | | Bight of the interview of Halliday and Tilton in | the following letter, which is without date and was written in pencil in great haste, and is here pro- duced, marked * BEECHER TO MOULTON. | Sowpay Nic. | My Dean Prew— | 1. The Lagle ought to have nothing to night. Itis that | meddling which stirs up our folks Neither. Cpe ht to be troubled by the side which you } Theodore o | served so faithfully in public, | 2. the deacon’s meeting I think is adjourned, 1 saw Belt, friend ment. near, next danger is the women—Morrill, Bradshaw, and the poor, dear child, It papers wil) bold off a month we can ride outthegale and make safe anchorage, and then when once. we are | in deep. tranquil waters we will ali join hands ina | found and genuine lave Deo! tor through such a Wil nes#s only & Divine Providenee could ere ¢ led vs On- ¥ the open-mouthed beasts that Jay in wait devoured 'b | for our live 1 go on twelve train after sleeplees night. Tem anz- | ious about Theodore’s interview with Halliday. Will you fend me aline Monday night 01 | OL. 'P Kennard, Boston Nass, UeMaay morning. care 1 wet mails there tii! Friday. | I have now produced to the committee all the letters and docnments bearing upon the subject | Matter of this inquiry which I have in my posses- | Slo, either from Beecher, Tilton or Mrs. Tilton, Previous to the Bacon iettes, and there is but one collateral matter of which I desire to speak. WILRESON AND BLACKMAILING. I saw questions pat in the cross-examination of Tilton, a# publisied in the Brookiyn -Bagle, and algo published in the newspapers—with how much of truth I know not—that Samnel Wiikeson bad charmed wat Titon's case (in controversy with , as been to me | better be very | . Storrs, | which he | another he | » but pretty | ro | | Bowen). was tor the of blackmailing bim | and Beecher, and that he (Wilkeson) knew that there had been no crime committed inet Tilton or his household by Beecher. Beecher never 1n- timated to me that he thonght there was de- sire on Tilton’s part to blackmail him; and as I had the sole management of the money contro- versy between Tilton and Bowen, which I have al- ready fully explained, I know there was no attempt on Tilton’s part to blackmail or get anythipg more than what J believed his just due from Bowen. So | that 1 am certain that Mr, Wilkeson is wholly mus- | taken in that re; . | The question whether Wiikeson knew or be- lieved that any offence had been committed will | depend upon the fact whether he knew of any- thing that had been done by Beecher or Tilton’s wife which called tor apology at the time he wrote the tripartite covenant. will be remembered that the tripartite covenant was made solely in reierence to the disclosures which Bowen had made to Tilton and Tilton had made to Bowen, | and Tilton’s letter sets forth that the only disclo- sure he made to Bowen 3 Beecher’s acts toward himself were of improper advances made to his | Wife, and that he go limited bis charge in order to | | save the honor of his . These questions will | be answered by the production of the letter of | | April 2, 1872, written by Samuel Wilkeson, which | are marked “AAA” ;— WILKESON TO MOULTON. Norrgern Pactrio R. AD COMPANY, Skcnwrany's Ovvicx, 120 BRoabway, New Yorg, April 2, 1872. My Dass Mounron—Now for the closing act of justice : | Let Theodore pass into your hand the written apology which he bolds tor the improper ad es, and do you pass it into the flames of the friendly fire in your room | of reconciliation. Then let Theodore talk to Oliver John- | eon. {veeanete tee peta: Guapeniens a8 avast, Lars, made r the subject of conversation in the clubs. Suncerely yours, or RAMUEL WILKESON. ‘This letter, it will be observed, contains no pro- vest against blackmailing, either on Tilton’s part | or my Own, upon Beecher or Bowen, and ta of the date of the tripartite covenant. “Wilkeson also, | hearing of Tilton’s troubles, kindly offered to pro- | cure him a very lucrative employment in a large enterprise with which he was connected, as ap- pears from a letter dated January 1, 1871, which I | herewith produce, marked “BBB 1.” WILKESON TO TILTON. Nouruxny Pactric Katuroan Comrary, January 1, 1871. Dear Ti:rox—You are in trouble. I come to you with | a letter just mailed to Jay Cooke, advising him fo secure your services as a platform speaker to turn New kngland, id England or the great West upside down about our Northern Pacific. You shan't be trampled down. Keep DON'T < quiet. Don’t talk. PUBLISH. Abide your | time and it willbe a very good time. Take my word for it. SAMUEL WILKESON, It will be observed that this letter was dated after the letter of apology and after the letter of | | Tilton to Bowen, and Wilkeson couid hardly have desired to employ in so grave an enterprise one whom he then knew or believed to be attempting to blackmail his employer. And, besides, his kindly expressions and advice to Tilton seem to me wuolly inconsistent with such an allegation, T think it just, in this connection, to state a fact whic! rs in my mind apon this subject, On tne 8d of May, 1873, I kuew that Tilton was in want of Tooney, and I took leave, without consulting him, tosend him my check for $1,000 and a due bili tor | that amount to be signed by him, enclosed ina | letter which I here produce, marked “BBB2.” all of which he returned to me with an indorsement thereon. The following is the document :— MOULTON TO TILTOD New Yorn, May 3, 1873. Dran Taxonorr—I enclose to you a check for $1,000, for which please sign the enclosed. Yours, ' D. MOULTON, [Endorsement on above by Tilton. Dear Fraxx—I can’t borrow apy money, | way of returning it, Hastiiy, After the above paper was returned to me, on the same day I sent him the $1,000, leaving it to be a matter as between ourselves, and not @ money transaetion. TILTON’S DEMANDS FOR MONEY. I know, to the contrary of this, so iar as Beecner is concerned, that Tilton never made any demand on him for money or pecuniary aid in apy way or form. He asked only that Beecher should inter- pose his influence and power to protect him from the slanders of those who claimed to be Beecher’s friends, while Beecher himsel, with generosity | and kindness toward Tilton, which. had always | characterized his acts duriag the whole of this unhappy controversy, of hisown motion insisted, through me, in aiding Tilton in establishing his en- terprise of the Golden Age, for which purpose he gave Me the sum of $5,000, which 1 was to. expend in such manner as I deemed judicious to keep the enterprise along, and if Tilton was at any time in meed personally to aid him, It was understood between self and Beecher that this money | Should go to Tilton as if it came from my own Focal | contributions for his benefit, and that he should not know—and he does not know until he reads this Statement, for! do not believe he bas derived it from any otuer source—tnat this money came from Beecher, or thinks that he is in any way indebted to him for it. 1 annex an ag- count of the receipt and expenditure of that sum, br fe as it has been expended, in a paper marked | tor T see no . | STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT. + 2878. | May 2, received .... | May 3, p: | mae Bata | August 15, ps september Di September 30, p: Desraber, 16, paid. February 2%, paid. March 30, paid: May (2 paid May 2%, paid | 1 also annex two letters of March 30, 1874, from | the publisher of the Golden Age, which will tend to vouch the expenditure of a part of the above | amount. They are marked “DDD” ana “EEE” re- | spectively :— “RESCUING THE “GOLDEN AGE,” RULAND TO MOULTON. Tax GoLpEn acs, New York, March 30, 1874. Priv: ite. J Dear Mr. Movtton—We are in a tight spot Mr. — | is away and we have no money and no paper. Can't get the latter without the former. We owe about $400 for paper, and the firm we have been orering trom re- tuse to let us have any more without money. Haven't | any paper for this week's issue. Traly yours, , . W. RULAND, Ifyou can do anything for us! trust you will, to help us tide over the chasm. FROM SAME TO SAME. THE GoLDEN AGE, New York, March 30, 1874. | Dean Ma Movuro: aun more grateful than I can | tell you for the noble and generous way you came to the | rescue of the Golden ge this afternoon. ‘Truly your | friend, 0. W. BULAND, TILTON AND EUROPE. I think proper to add, further, that Tilton more than once said to me that he could and woula receive nothing irom Beecher in the way of pe- cuniary assistance. I remember one special in- stance in which the subject was discussed be- tween us. Beecher had told. me that he was wiil- ing to furnish money to pay the expenses of Tilton and his /amily in travelling abroad, 10 order | that Tilton might be saved from the coustant state of irritation which arose from the rumors he was daily hearing. Irather hinted at than informed | Tilton Of this fact, and he repelled even the intima- | tion of such @ thing with the utmost indignation | and snger. Therefore I only updertook the dis- | bursement of this sum at the most earnest and voluntary request of Beecher. As I have brought before the committee the somewhat collateral matter of the letters of Mrs, | | Woodhull to Beecher to influence him into the sup- | port of her doctrines and herseif socially, which I ought but just to him, it seems but equally just that I should make as a@ part of my statement a | letter, that came into my possession at the time it | | Was written, from Tilton toa friend in the West— | and not for the purpose o! publication—explaining his position in regard to Mrs, Woodhull and the | injurious publication made against him and his family and Mr. Beecher. This letter I here pro- duce, marked “FFF 1”: TILTON TO A PRIEND IN THR WEST, No. 174 Livincston Street, BrooxLy, Dec. 81, 1872. Dear Frrexp—I owe you a long letter, I'am un- well and a prisoner in the house, leaning back {n leath- €r-cushioned idieness and writing on my chair board | before the tire. Perbaps yon wonder that have a fre, | nything but @ hearthstone broken and grumbled, | j Since the world has been told that my household is in ruins. And yet itis more like your last letter—brim- | ful of love and wit and sparkling like @ fountain in mid- winter, Nevertheless you sre right. 1 am in trouble, and I | hardly see a path ont of it." | It is just two years ago to-day—this very day, the last | of the year—that Mr. Bowen lifted bis hummer, and | with an nnjust blow smote asunder my two. con tracts—one with the Independent and the other with the | Brooklyn Union. The public little suspects that this act of his turned on his fe horrible cha: Beecher, 1 through ‘an unw e Kept quiet on the subject for two yéars ilingness to harm others, even for the gake of righting myselt before the public. | But. having | | trusted to tme for my vindication. I find that time has | | only thickened my dificulnes, until these now buffet me lake a storm. * ago paid tome tne as- sensed pec 4 h grew out of his break- in ot 5 ive me FT ‘This settlement, so far as 1 am concerne | a | gyman, not growing out of the Woodhull scandai merely, | but exhaled with ever tresh fouiness, like mephitic va- ors. from Bowen’s own charge against Beconer. Verily, the tongue is a wild beast that mo man can taine, and like a wolf it is now seeking to devour the chie? shepherd of the ook, together tfso with my own pretty lam For the last four or five weeks, or ever since I saw th Wooahnu)! libel, I ha ily had @ restful day; and frequently dream the whole thing over at night, waking the next morning unfit tor work. Have you any conception of what tt is to suffer the jest possible injustice? I not, come and jearn of me, Te say nothing of the wrong and insult to my wife, 8 whose sorrow I have greater sorrow, | have to bear the | additional indignity of being misconstrued by haM the | public and by many friends. |. For instance, it is supposed that I had @ conspirator’s | band in this unholy business, whereas I am ay inno- cont of It as of the Nathan murder. i it is hinted that the libellous article was peeeny wae | ten by me; whereas (beimg in the north of New amp- shire) I did_ not know of its existence till a week after it | bad eonvulsed my own city and family. My wife never | mamed it @ lest it should spoti my | | mood for now IT wae then toil- | | img day and ag reeley’s sake). ‘hi , it is the of the clabs that I have de. | | generated into an tle of free love; whereas the | | whole body of my writings stands like @ monument | | against this execrable sheory. loreover, it Ph wet am in financial and other relations with ‘oodhull; where: have not snoken to, nor met, nor seen her ior nearly ere ery, je my acquaintance with her ter | Reacher with the mast bideaus er rs a th Uis;—In 8 few mont! | 2 responsible im | somebody a story which iilton | tentional injustice, and am glad to take the earliest oc - 2 ————___. mature, amd had la! Ine door of te Taaepeodesé mn ‘Me cfty, I sena by Mr. Halliday. Shp sete Nea see or the meeting this my fac when Pras iting lercules to Keep | you before or «ter ing, this evening. ey total stranger to me, ured into my ears, new one of her own— identical tale which she ‘Think of it! When I was Suppress one earthquake Mrs. Woodhull su ly stood before me porteutous with another, Waat wast to dot 1 resoived at all hazards to Keep e Hew avalanche until T could secur original storm. ity fear was that she would publish what she told to me, anid, to prevent this cata rophe, | re- solved (and, a8’ the resuit proves, like # fool, and yet with a fool's innocent and pure motive) to make her such 4 friend of mine that she would never think of doing mo such a harm. so I rengered her some important ser- vices (including especially some labors of pen and ink), all with a view to put and hold ber under an obligation ipso acting toward h glad surprise in so acting toward her I found to my and astonishment thatshe rose almost as high in my estimation as she had done with Lucretia Mott, klizabet Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker and oiher excel lent women. "Nobody who has not met Mrs, Woodhull can have an adequate idea of the admirable impression which she is capable of producing on serious persons. . Moreover, Trelt thatthe current denunciations against her were outrageously unjust, and that, like myselt, she hac been put in a talse position before the public, aud 1 syinpathized keenly wish the aggravation of spirit which this produces. This fact lent a zeal to all I said in her defence. Nor was it until after Thad known her for a number | of months, and when I discovered her purposes to libel @ dozen representative women of the suffrage move- suddenly opened my eyes to her real ten- | ps to mischief: and then it was that I indignantly repudiated her acquaintance, and have never seen her Mrs. Woodhull, suddenly sent fe ie 10. ade, . i id 4am left to be the chief sufferer in nD. 101 What to doin the amperseney “(which is not clearing, bul clouding itseir daily) [ have nox vet decided. What | could do would be to e from my writing desk and puolish to-morrow morning the prepared narrative and vindication, which, with facts and documents, my legal advisers pronounce complete. ‘his would explain and clarity everything, Doth creat id small Gncluding the Woodhu!! episode, which is but a minor part of the whole case); but if I publish it I ‘Wust not only violate a Kind of honorabie obligation to be silent, which } had voluntarily imposed upon myse!t but! must put my old friend Bowen {o a serious risk of being smitten dead by Beecher’s hand. How tar Bowen would deserve this tate T cannot say, but I know that all Plymouth churcn would bunt him as a ral Well, perhaps the tutare will unravel my skein for me without my own hand; but whatever happens to my Freathor-beauen seit, wish to Jou 0 Prosperous, com- rade, a . Fraternally yo. ‘ie ge iba THEODORE TILTON, P. 8.—Before sending this long letter (which pays my debt to ycu) I have read itto my wite, who desires fo supp.ement it by sending her love and good will to the little white cottage aud its little red cheess. WILTON’S INSANITY. The first intimation of the insanity of Tilton arose in this wise:—Prior vo Sunday, March 29, pt @ publication was made O/ a statement by a reporter of the Brooklyn Union purporting to be the result of an interview with afr, Thomas G. Shearman, clerk of Plymouth church, to the effect I quote irom memory—that Tilton was insane, and that he stated that Mrs, Tilton had mediumistic fits—whatever disease that may be—in which she had stated matters affecting the character of Beecher, and to the statement of neither of them, for that reason, was any credit to be given. This publication, as it tended not only to excite Tilton to @ defence of bis sanity, but also, as coming from the clerk of Plymouth Church, | might be supposed to be an authoritative expres- sion of its pastor, annoyed Beecher very much, and he wrote the following letter, marked “FFF 2," which I herewith produce :— BEECHER TO MOULTON, Sunpay Nica, March 29, 1874. My Dear Franx—Is there to be no end to trouvle’ Is wave to iollow wave in endless succession? I was cut to the heart when C. showed me 8) nh from the Union, Its cruelty is beyond d like lying down and saying, “! am tired Hying, or of trying to resist the devi wouid rather have had ajavebn laune | i ot, mischief.” hed against me @ hundred times than against those that have suflered so much. The shameful indelicacy of bringing the most sacred relations into such publicity fills me with horror, But there are some slightaileviations. The paragraph came when the public, mind was engaged with the counciF and. with Theodore’s letters. hope it will Pass without further notice. If it is not taken up by other papers it will sink out of sight and be forgot- ten: whereas, if it be assailed, it may give it a vo spicuity that it never would have had. But! shal write ‘Shearman a letter and give him'my tull teel- ing about it I must again (be); asl have heretofore been, indebted to you for @ judicious council on this new and flagrant eloment. iy asrnoemcnt soul longs for peace; and if that cannot be, for death, that will bring Peace.’ My fervent hope fs that this drop of gall may sink through out of sight and not prove & mortal poison. Yours ever, H.W. BEECHER, Thave written srenay to Shearman and hope that he will send a letter to’, unsolicited. Iam sick, head, hear: and body, bat must move on! 1tecl this morning like letting things go by the run! SHEARMAN’S APOLOGY TO TILTON. The letter of retraction, as gr penn by Tilton, not being forthcoming, I felt it my duty, m his interest, to take such measures as should resuit in an apology irom Shearman to Tilton. I ac- cordingly carried to him a copy of the paper | having the article, apa laid it upon bis desk in his ofiicerand said to him that if the statements in this article were not actually made by him he ought to retract them. Although it jay on his desk he said to me that he had not seen the articie and did not mean to see it. I told him that he must see it, and 1 it was not true that he must say so. He saidhe didn’t want to read it and wouldn't read it. I tuen left nim. Afver- wards I saw Tilton and told him what! had done, and he said, “We will go up together,” which we did, and met Mr. Shearman. Mr. Tilvon calied nis attention to the statement in the Brooklyn Union as having come from him (Shearman), concerning himself and his wife, that one was crazy und the other subject to mediumistic fits, id he, “Mr. Shearman, this jg untrue, and if you are not correctly reported your simple duty is to say so; and if yon have made such a statement I demand that you re- tract and apologize. I! you do not, 1 shai hold ol ny way {can for snch injurious taieniénty? Shearman then read the paragraph | in the Unton, and made an explanation in this wise:—Tiat ne might Probanly pave, eee ine i. Mediumistic states of Mrs, Woodhall, ane. per. haps have made the mistake of using Mrs. Tilton’s name ag ore of Mrs. afer Tilton said to him, “Mr. Shearman, you know phat yt de ately uttering falsenoods, ‘and t won't alow AG think even what you can deceive me by such a stapement as you are making now. You must hake such an explanation of this statement in the Union as shail be batisfactory to me, or, as I said before, I shall bold you responsible.” During the first part of this conversation Mr. Shearman calied in @ witness from his outer office, but when the conversation became earnest and Tilton began charging him with an untruvh, Shearman bid the witnese retire, Which be did. Tilton and 1 then leit the office. , Within a few days of this interview Tilton pro- cured the aMdavit of the reporter of the Union that the statement that Shearman had been re- ported as making he did, in fact, make. On March | 20 Shearman sent to me, for delivery to Tilton, @ note, of which I produce a copy Under that date, marked “GGG.” The originai was delivered up to Shearman alterwards :— SHEARMAN TO TILTON. Brooxiy, March 30, 1874. Duan Sin—My attention has been called to a news. | aper paragraph which { have not seen, Dut which I am Id 1s to the effect that I stated to a reporter that vou had described Mrs. Tilton as having, in # mediumistic or clairvoyant state, made some extraordipary stacements ofa paintul nature. Thave tor some years past made it @ rule never to send correciions to newspapers of anything relating to | myself, no matter how erroneous such statements inay But I have no objection to saying to you personally that this story, if correctly auored here: appears to be 4m erroneous version of the one and only statement Which Thad from you over « year age, viz., that Mrs, bf as did exactly the thing here attributed to Mrs. Ido not know that Iever repeated that story in the resence of any reporter for the paper in question, but have done s01n the presence of others, aud | may, of course, by an unconscious mistake, have used your ‘wife's name in the place of another and wholly different person. If so, 1 beg that you wiil assure Mrs, Tilton of my great regret for such a error. Yours obediently, T. G. SHEARMAN, When I took this note to Tilton he refused to re- ceive it, saying :—‘‘I will not receive any such note from Shearman. He knows it contains a falsehood id 1 cannot take it from him. You may carry it back to him.” 1 did so, and stated to him Tilton’s swer. Afterwards he substituted for that note another, under date of April 2, 1874, which is here produced, markea “HHH” :— SHEARMAN TO TILTON. | Buooxiyy, April 2, 1874 | Dean Sin—Having seen a paragraph the Brooklyn Duion.of Saturday last, containing @ report of a state: ment alleged to have been made by me concerning your | family and yourself, F desire to assure you that this re- | port is serious: ty and that I bave never au: | to which I gave T deeply regrot having been misied into an actof unin- casion to rectity it 1 beg, therefore, to withdraw all that Isaid apon the | oce referred to as incorrect (although then believed d to repudiate entirely the statement imputed as untrue and unjnst 10 all parties concerned. diently, 1. G. BHBARMAN, ‘Tuxopone T1uT0N, Esa. In no part of that negotiation did Mr. Shearman suggest to me that there were any doubts as to Tilton’s sanity, and denied both to me and to him that ke had ever said anything to the contrary, or that Mrs. Tilton was in any way incapact ed from telling the truth by reason of mediumistic fits or other physical disability. Shearman’s ac- | tion was communicated to Beecher; bat mean- while it had come to be spread about that Beecher had made 4 similar accusation as to the sanity of Mr. aad Mre, Tilton to that of Shearman. BEECHER’S INDIGNANT DENIAL. A member of your committee, Mr. Cleveland, communicated the tact to Beecher, to which | Beecher made an indignant demial, a8 appears vy , his note to Mr, Cleveland, who communicated a copy of 1# to me in @ note under date of April 2, which I here produce, marked *III’?-— BEECHER 10 CLEVELAND, 0) My Daan Crnvecaxp—Lou' say that 1 am sa posed % have reported to some members of the council eubdsta: such im possibi A Inever opened my lips to man being on the subject.. Twill dety any man me and tay” that by word, Wook oF Inuinatlen alluded to it, I have been as dumb as the dead. that dare to say I have spoken of Ware Hers mean to themselyes, and the bearers of lies i ores it from eiers, found od to make such jave a teeling too profor jiy sacre 1o | sacrilege possible,” y ew BEROMER, | APRIL 2, 1874 CLEVELAND TO MOULTON, M Pinna Sie Merea you have copy of a note received the im Dean Sin—Herewi from Mr. Beecher respecting atter of which it r "PNotncelng you when J called this A. My, and Jasvina | country, | report is made it shall be made ta private. | put | the 9 face ever | ard was elected Moderator, | sata EXPLANATION BY THE MUTUAL FRIEND, Having retained the friendsiip of the principal fo this controversy down to to-day, | have Rot thought it proper to produce herewith any letters that 1 received from either of them ex: cepting the single one exonerating me from blame and showing . Tiiton’s confidence in me, which J thought was due to myself tv do of the culiar statement attributed to ber; nor have i produced any papers or proposais for @ settlement , of this controversy since it has br out afresh and since the pubiication of Tilton’s letter to Dr. Bacon and the call of Beecher for a committee; nor bave I since then furnished to either party, al- though called upon by »oth, any documents in my possession that one might use the same it the other. I have endeavored to hold myself strictiy a8 @ Mediator between them, and my endeavor has been, even down to the very lutest hour, to have all the scanaais arising out of the publication of the facts of their controversies and wrongs buried out of sight, deeming it best that it should be so done, not only for the good of the parties con- cerned ‘and their families, but thatof the com- Tmunity at large, I! any evidence were needed that, im the interest er, | was Piped the pub- of the parties, and especially of endeavoring to the latest hour to lication of ail these documents and this testimony, and that I retained the confidence of at least one of the parties in that endeavor, I produce @ letter of Juiv 13, 1874, being a note ai ing a meeting between myself and Beecher in regard to this con- troversy. 1t 1s marked, “JJJ:—~ BEECHER TO MOULTON, Joxy 15, 1874, My Dear Prawx—I wi:l be with you at seven, ora little before. Iam ashamed to put a straw more spon yo mai 79 and have but a single consolation—that the Mot distreas you ‘ong. as it must oon eind—that will be no mo ure, y rets there may be for the past. Truly yours and ever, 4 i W: BEECHER: If there is any paper or fact supposed by either of the parties, or oy the committee, to be in my possession which will throw any fu! eure the subject of your inquiry, I shall be most willing to produce it it I have it, although I do not believe that there is any such; and lam ready to answer any proper question which shall be put tome in the way of cross-examination by any of con- cerned or their counsel, as fully as my memory or. any data I have will serve, s0 that ai} the facts may be known; for, if any part of them be known, I deem it but just to trata and mght that all sheuld be Known, As, however, controversy has. siready arisen as to the correctness of the reports ot ev’ dence taken betore the committee, 1 must ask leave, if apy cross-examination {s to be bad orally, to be accompanied by my own stenographer, who shall take down the evidence ? may give as a necessary measure lor my own protection. Leaving to your committee, without comment the facts and documents herewith presented, have the honor to remain, yours, truly, FRANCIS D, MOULTON. TILTON ON THE STATEMENT. Mr. Tilton, when called upon yesterday, said that he had nothing to say concerning the state- | ment of Frank Moulton farther than this—that 1¢ was true in each particular according to the best of his knowledge and belief, There were indeed many things set forth in the statement which were new to him, as they had passed ont of his memory for the time being. The document, a8 @ whole, was, he said, quite refreshing to him. THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE. ‘The members of the Examining Committee of Plymouth church were seen wending their way from all points of the compass to ane common cen- tre between hal/-past nine and ten o’clock yester- day, The rendezvous was the residence of Mr. Thomas G. Shearman, the cierk of the church, at the southeast corner of Hicks street and Orange, Brooklyn. By a few minutes after ten the twenty-three gentlemen who compose the Ex- amining Committee bad arrived, Mr. Hemry W. Sage, the Chairman of the investigating commit- tee, which is in reality only 9 sub-organisation of | the Examining Committee, was on hand at tem o'clock precisely, prepared to submit tne report which had been passed upon at the meeting of the Mvestigating committee ay at the residence | of Mr. Beecher, No. 124 Columbia Heights, the previous night. When the Examining Committee in | Mr, Shearman’s study yesterday Mr. at oneo read his report and handed it over to m. Mr. Shearman, tt is said, then informed the committee that he bad reason to believe tuat Mr. Mouiton’s detailed statement would be published that afte: noon. Alter some discussion it was a that the committee adjourn and meet after the afternoon papers had »een pubbshed. This suggestion was promptly acte ‘pon, and the members a@t- once dispersed to tl diferent places of business, 1 Examining Committee decided positively not to submit the ‘of tha investigating committee to the chu at tho regular weekly business meeting iast is, unless. ihe statement of Frank Moulton strona be of such @ Dature as plainly not to demand any further in- quiry at their hands, Should it turm oat other- wise, the investigation will be prolonged until they have taken cognizance and te- vestigat any serious points that turn up in Moulton’s statement, after which the report will be submitted to the church. It was understood from one of the ittee, esterday, that the report of the mvestigating goramiice will not be presented to the ebureh an: “1 . rae evening next. PLYMOUTH CHURCH AND THE PRESS. The regular weekiy meeting of the Plymouth Church Society was held last evening in the leo- ture room of that edifice. One of the deacons stepped upon the platform about eight o'clock and said:—‘2 em requested to state for the benefit of those who have come here with the expectation of hearing the re- portof the Investigating Committee: thas it will ot be submitted this evening. The commuttee has not been abie to complete the report and we shail all therefore be disappointed.” Mr. Shearman then came forward and calle? upon Brother R. W. Ropes to act as Moderator, but that gentleman not being present Brother John T. Howard was requested to actim that ca< pacity, Brother Howard called upon one of tha members for prayer, and Professor Raymond re~ sponded, calling upon God to shed His wisdom upon them, guide them in their counsels and erown ail their efforts with success. Mr. Shearman then offered anotner explanation, saying:—“This meeting was called this evening with the expectation that the subcommittee of | the Investigating Committee would be ready ta submit their report to this church to-night. I any instructed to say that they will have no report ta make to Plymouth cuurcn this GG J ee some one else has cee business to suomit, would move that we adjourn.’ Brother White—i would make ® motion tha when this report of the commitvee Is presente: that the church receive it and conaider it pri~ vately. There are good reasons why we should consider it among ourselves; for ¢ are sa many persons who criticise every action of the members of Plymouth church in an unchristianlike manner that it would be well to consider questions cancers ay the church with more privacy. It has} become a disgrace to think that Plymouth charc! cannot have a prayer meeting but what every, word which is said is spread upom the publia sheetsin the morning and sent broadcast over the Therefore | would move that when the Brother Gilvert said it will be ample tame for us to consider how we snail consider tlfe report whem we get it. (Applause.) We have no report be~ fore us to consider at the present time, and can~ not, therefore, take any action upon it Mr. R. Raymond said it was indeed disgraceful’ | that Plymouth church could not held # prayer meetin, without hav! the report~ | ers ol Co pee iad eS, ede dag we can hol priva' ee ; meetings would be reported whether represeutatives of the newspapers were admitted! or excluded, aud instead of having full correct) reports we should have garbled statements pub- lished, IfI could secure that privacy which the sacredness of these meetings would seem to de- mand 1 should be very glad to do s0, we have found, by ce im; that direction, that all attempts amt locking, doors. ‘and privacy 10 our atfair: only led to garbled reports, they being made b. some members of the church who were not vergt euurch therefore, | ahould choose the former, that search in te ‘doors, ag the least of the two evils, k move tolay the resolution on Re ya and when we ads. journ we adjourn to meet on Priday next, 7 The motion to lay on the tavle prevaaied, and thé business meeting adjourned, PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING, Plymouth lecture room was crowded to overa satelite flowing last evening. Every doorway was file@ | with people who were unable to obtain seate, The meeting was called to order, and Juhn T. Howe Brother Halliday that the committee had not ree ceived the report from the sub-committee and, therefore, could not make their reporty | amd motioned that the meeting be adjourne Brother White then said:—“I make s motion that when the report is presented that the church re« celve and consider it privately; there are goo reasons why we should consider it among our